Russian firm suspects Intuit added backdoors in Quicken application for US law enforcement (read ComputerWorld article). Although we can argue the ethics of a software vendor doing this, it is a good example where software protection technology should be provided to protect these features.
Vic
Interesting trend in China, according to this article (http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=355407&ssid=54&sid=BUS article below)
“Record applications registered for software copyright protection Zee News - Noida,India Beijing, Feb 20: China, known for rampant piracy, received over 22, 400 applications, a record, for software copyright protection last year”
The article leads you to believe this is an indication of improving IP protection, but it strikes me as evidence for why software vendors should worry when selling into China. How many how many of the 22, 400 apps were based on existing on other software IP.
Vic
This blog http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/13/bluray_and_hddvd_bro.html provides a really good review of the AACS hack. It illustrates a common weakness with previous copy protection mechanisms in handling of encryption keys. There needs to be an active software protection component that deters memory scraping. Without this, a class break attack is possible. Of course nothing is fool proof in these scenarios, but you can make the reverse engineering process much more difficult and harder to reproduce on a per title basis.
Henry
